Tommy Orange
2) There there
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
3) Dort dort
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
So viel Energie, so viel Schönheit, so viel Erkenntnis - Jacquie ist endlich nüchtern und will zu der Familie zurückkehren, die sie vor vielen Jahren verlassen hat. Dene sammelt mit einer alten Kamera Geschichten von indianischem Leben. Edwin sucht seinen Vater. Und Orvil will zum ersten Mal den Tanz der Vorfahren tanzen. Ihre Leben sind miteinander verwoben, und sie sind zum großen Powwow in Oakland gekommen, um ihre Traditionen zu feiern. Doch...
4) Ceremony
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Series
Language
English
Description
This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Laguna Pueblo young man. Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Ni aquí ni allí es un relato intergeneracional con un ritmo implacable sobre la violencia y la superación, la memoria y la identidad, la belleza y la desperación incrustadas en la historia de una nación y su pueblo. Cuenta la historia de doce nativos americanos, cada uno con una razón personal para ir al gran powwow de Oakland, la gran celebración de pueblos indígenas. Jacquie Red Feather hace poco que ha dejado el alcohol y está intentando...
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."
Language
English
Description
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...